Purple Patch's owner said that the streatery generates half of the restaurant's revenue and that she'd need to lay off 26 of 65 employees if they had to remove it. wapo.st/4wzvtvE

Illinois's governance reform sets service standards for Chicago transit. The state provides a minimum level of funding for everyone, then distributes bonus funding based on performance metrics. Service planning is done regionally. Could be California! www.rtachicago.org/blog/2026/01...

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neighborhoods next to on-ramps if there’s no deadhead AV tax:

New paper by specialist academics Buehler, Pucher, Moran, Lanversin & Aldred. From 1990 to 2023, cycling mode share rose from 0.6% to 3% in New York, from 1.2% to 4.5% in London, from 7% to 19% in Berlin, and from 0.4% to 11% in Paris (with rises since). www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

It appears that the White House's Office of Management and Budget is failing to apportion roughly $4.9 billion in transit capital grants, despite the Congress approving them: openomb.org/file/1147715... The 2nd Trump administration has failed to fund a single new transit line ⏬

they are now literally prioritizing truck parking over safety infrastructure in a program explicitly designed to reduce fatalities. 👍 www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/...

We need change, not a consensus. Firefighters are not building scientists. To get things changed some people will have to be left mad and the firefighters are one of those groups

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infra Law) devoted hundreds of billions to streets & highways. But impacts are limited: While road quality generally improved, it improved more slowly than previously—and not on all rural road types. More: www.urban.org/research/pub...

The US government should be focusing on the fact that half the country is about to be overwhelmed by a debilitating ice and snow storm. Yet here we are instead, with the government’s focus being on killing random people in the street

California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...

Uh, I am going to have to be convinced on these

What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation? Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending. climateandcommunity.org/research/let...

I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.

In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing. Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!

Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...

Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.

desperately searching, hoping, wishing for this one to have been real

Kurt Vonnegut man

Air quality is so visibly bad with these fireworks. Seeing smoke wafted all the way to the ground level in Woodley Park. It literally smells like the little party poppers outside.

USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include: —Green infra —Bike infra —EV infra —Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.

GOP Senators are “begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated” & that admin is illegally impounding. Sen Tuberville wants bridge $ Sen Capito wants electric school bus $ Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff Sen Britt wants NIH $ Sen Moran wants farm subsidies

Not to jinx anything that might happen this week yet, but big shifts in policy at organizations require staff to implement changes. Otherwise, expect delays...

Here's another: smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin... ...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.

In an hour! I'll be joining @gnd_network @4TransitJustice @americawalks @LN4S @cplusci from 7:30-8 PM ET to discuss the $20 billion+ funding freeze crisis and what you can do to ensure communities get the money they're owed. Tune in! act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/unfre...

EV charging is just the start. DOT should now have a list of equity and climate programs/projects to cancel. Billions could be cut across the country, destroying economic development and job creation progress. How bad is it in your district? www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/

Counterpoint: he absolutely did not surrender. Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.

From the “Woke Rescission” (yes really) memo: Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.

Totally normal, as a simple matter of divine forgiveness, to put a white supremacist antisemitic kid in charge of the U.S. Treasury payments system

It was the start of a beautiful rivalry/friendship. If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!

This was not on my bingo card. Wow.

we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.

Thanks @yfreemark.bsky.social Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

We need to talk more explicitly & directly about how all of this authoritarian nonsense is going to kill people

Trump WH finally put out a memo clarifying the EO that might have accidentally paused all federal hwy funding. Try 2 attempts to limit the hold to EV stuff but it looks like this goes directly against the impoundment act and will break existing contracts still www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Great leadership from MN & CO shifting DOT paradigms re road capacity, induced demand, VMT reduction! @govpritzker.illinois.gov Gia Biagi, your turn! Optimistic since under Biagi Chi DOT adopted goal for reduced VMT. Reduced VMT+increased public transit ($)+ EVs > than current IL EV emphasis

yes, they can! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TRB? More like TRBrrr

Paris and Berlin works, meanwhile, because of their density, local transit and walkability. Get off a train in either city and you're in an urban mecca with no need for a car. That's not true of Atlanta, Denver, Houston or Dallas. bsky.app/profile/sust...

T4A’s Fueling the Crisis got this figure by categorizing projects obligations logged to USASpending and estimating emissions based on Georgetown Climate Center’s Transportation Investment Strategies tool. More info on their assumptions here: www.georgetownclimate.org/files/report...

And the maintenance *reduces* emissions! We spend a lot of money on widening highways in our formula program, much more than people tend to realize. Our report found that almost 3 times was spent on highway/road expansion ($37.5B) compared to *all* reported FRA project obligations ($13B).

love this team

Again, a decade from now "AI skills" will be a commodity, & the scarce resource in the labor market will (once again) be individuals who can think, write, analyze, & communicate, as it has been forever and always. And we'll still be fighting tired, age-old battles defending the liberal arts.

the problem with AI policies is you literally can’t be too skeptical of LLM outputs while everything else “AI” is a Different Thing with specific consequences and utility but it all gets lumped together as “AI” by admin-types who can’t distinguish but like ChatGPT bc most emails are borrrringggg

Tell Gov. Newsom to flex CA's highway dollars into transit! With Trump threatening to impound already allocated funds, Newsom needs to move fast to transfer federal funding into much-needed transit projects. www.movecalifornia.org/take-action

Today at 2p ET: I’m going talk about our findings on IIJA investments’s climate emissions from our latest Fueling the Crisis report, and show you how you could use our report to support state advocacy for better options. Register here!: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...